Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.